[tz] more changes (and a bug fix)
Christos Zoulas
christos at zoulas.com
Sat Oct 18 14:49:20 UTC 2014
On Oct 18, 12:49am, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] more changes (and a bug fix)
| Thank you for reporting that bug with garbage data. I found another one while
| looking into that one, as the code didn't check that the entire tzfile header
| was read, which meant it could inspect garbage in the header.
|
| If I understand the errno-related fixes correctly they're trying to report
| detailed error values about various problems in parsing the TZ value as a POSIX
| string. However, the general tzcode philosophy is to prefer the new TZ
| interpretation first (i.e., read from an installed file somewhere), and to fall
| back on the POSIX interpretation only of the new interpretation does not work.
| If both the new and the POSIX interpretations fail, the new interpretation's
| errno value should suffice, which means there's no need to compute errno values
| when doing the POSIX interpretation.
|
| I'm attaching a proposed patch along those lines. This should also fix the
| abovementioned bugs. Plus, it gets rid of some related gotos.
Thanks, looks good. I will import the new code when it is released.
Best,
christos
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